Glue

Series Similar to Glue

If you enjoyed Glue, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Deep Water

   2016 · Drama, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   When the body of a young man is found in a beachfront apartment in Bondi, Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned the case. Is this brutal murder a domestic, a robbery gone wrong or something far more sinister?As other ritualistic murders occur, they discover the killer is using a social networking app to entice his victims. Anyone using the app is now at risk, and it's a race against the clock to catch the serial killer before he strikes again.With mounting evidence to suggest the perpetrator has killed before, Tori and Nick start digging through old investigations. The discovery is shocking. They uncover up to 80 possible murders of men that took place in the 80s and 90s in NSW - unexplained deaths, ‘suicides' and disappearances. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation.As they investigate past crimes, they become convinced that the current killer is somehow connected. In reopening the cold cases the detectives reveal the hidden truth about the past murders and uncover critical evidence leading to the killer. In doing so they finally give closure to the victims' families bybringing the killers, both past and present, to justice.

2. The Pact

   2021 · Drama · returning

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   How far would you go to protect those you love? Divided loyalties test the ties of family and friends - because secrets always have consequences.

3. Olive Kitteridge

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of a woman whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.

4. Reckless

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.

5. Hit & Miss

   2012 · Drama, Action, Crime · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Mia's a contract killer with a big secret - she used to be a man. As the series starts her ex-girlfriend reveals that she's dying and that they had a child. The show follows Mia's trials as she tries to separate her killer instincts with her parental ones.

6. The Newsroom

   2012 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.

7. The Queen's Gambit

   2020 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5).

   Chronicling the life of an orphan chess prodigy, the story - set during the Cold War era - follows Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two, as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world.

8. Manhattan

   2014 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   Set in Los Alamos, N.M., at the Manhattan Project during the race to build the world's first atomic bomb, Manhattan explores the cost of secrets and the corrosive effect they have on individuals, families and their relationships.

9. Vegas

   2012 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Vegas is a drama inspired by the true story of former Las Vegas Sheriff Ralph Lamb, a fourth-generation rancher tasked with bringing order to Las Vegas in the 1960s, a gambling and entertainment mecca emerging from the tumbleweeds. Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor appeals to his sense of duty to look into a murder of a casino worker - and so begins Lamb's clash with Vincent Savino, a ruthless Chicago gangster who plans to make Vegas his own. Assisting Lamb in keeping law and order are his two deputies: his diplomatic, even-keeled brother Jack and his charming but impulsive son Dixon. Ambitious Assistant District Attorney Katherine O'Connell, who grew up on the ranch next to the Lambs, also lends a hand in preserving justice. In Vegas, two powerful men - Lamb and Savino - are engaged in a fierce battle for control of the budding oasis, and for both of them, folding is not an option.

10. Capital

    2015 · Drama · ended

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

    On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.